"Mark violated other company policies and chose the better path. There are many other people who can fill the shoes of the CEO at HP. Mark's departure strengthened the HP brand and that is very valuable."
Spintastic, good sir! Delivered with impeccable corporate style.:)
"The guy you lump in as non-techy because he isn't specifically getting a boner about computers, may be spending hours daily in his garage playing with his car's engine. "
I certainly do no such lumping. Note the blacksmith reference!
I'm a mechanic, and have trained many mechanics and aircraft technicians in the USAF. What I tried to get across to my trainees is that when you learn that all technology is of a piece, you can choose to get comfortable with as much as suits your desires.
"2. Don't initiate hugs or other body contact. Be careful about returning hugs, and never do this alone."
I don't hug, don't touch, and explain that professionals don't do that. There is no reason to hug anyone.
"3. Maintain personal boundaries. High school students often don't recognize personal boundaries. It's up to the teacher to do so. Make it clear to your students that you have a "large" personal bubble, and would prefer that it be kept intact."
Make it clear that professional conduct requires a lot of space, that is an order expected to be obeyed, and not up for discussion.
"5. Female students often have "crushes" on male teachers. Keep your head on your shoulders and in your pants. There is nothing more public than a secret between a teacher and a student."
I don't speak to female students unless it's business, and keep a very polite distance at all times. Move at a pace that discourages conversation. They are here for skills training, nothing else.
That's why I'd never consider working with young people and don't associate with them.
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"That is the insane mentality that is driving the draconian and inflexible laws (in the US the legal age for having sex with a girl is already higher than that for tossing grenades into houses and then perusing the naked dismembered bodies of the said foreign girls). "
Nice try but not generally so. Some few enlistees join at 17 with parent/guardian consent, but age of sexual consent varies by state.
The sentence sends a message. Punishment should punish. Now he can serve as an example to others, while having his career so damaged he'll likely be mopping floors for the rest of his days.
He volunteered to ruin his own life by being stupid, his conduct isn't defensible, and he got spanked. There aren't two sides to the story. He was a fool, a control freak, and merits crushing so that is what happened.
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"but China could have simply raised the tax on energy to push those inefficient industries out of business "
That also punishes EFFICIENT businesses to some degree.
An order to close target industrial plant stops the problem without also hurting the businesses Beijing wants to thrive.
"Mark violated other company policies and chose the better path. There are many other people who can fill the shoes of the CEO at HP. Mark's departure strengthened the HP brand and that is very valuable."
Spintastic, good sir! Delivered with impeccable corporate style. :)
What would China know about civilization? (runs)
It's King in China too. There is such a thing as enlightened self-interest.
"Why is it SO important they have a name? "
In order to direct snail mail spam.
"BS alert! Please provide proof that there exist 'filters' that can stop CO2 from being produced from an ICE that can scale to billions of vehicles. "
Where do they store the literally TONS of CO2?
Skip the BS alert, upgrade to "if you even thought that possible, remove yourself from the gene pool!"
"Doesn't it bother anyone else that our entire economy is based upon most people being chumps?"
Fuck no. What, save gravity, is more certain than chumpitude?
"The guy you lump in as non-techy because he isn't specifically getting a boner about computers, may be spending hours daily in his garage playing with his car's engine. "
I certainly do no such lumping. Note the blacksmith reference!
I'm a mechanic, and have trained many mechanics and aircraft technicians in the USAF. What I tried to get across to my trainees is that when you learn that all technology is of a piece, you can choose to get comfortable with as much as suits your desires.
"$70,000 of drugs and hookers would change anyone's personality."
Change I can BELIEVE IN!
There were no Techy generations. There were Techy people, be they blacksmiths or chip designers.
Techy people of different generations did their thing, but most people are spectators who don't WANT to know how things work.
They always will be, and for geeks, this is good.
This is Slashdot, for FSMs sake!
HERF the fucker instead using a hidden antenna.
No birdshot, no frothing anti-freedom (even the Daily Kos "gets" the Second Amendment), anti-gun screeching triggered by the suggestion of birdshot,
and the HERFed device satisfyingly quits working.
"So what would you do if you were running AOL?"
It's too late. The relentless determination to suck despite years of criticism is irreversible.
The brand is tainted, sell it off.
"2. Don't initiate hugs or other body contact. Be careful about returning hugs, and never do this alone."
I don't hug, don't touch, and explain that professionals don't do that. There is no reason to hug anyone.
"3. Maintain personal boundaries. High school students often don't recognize personal boundaries. It's up to the teacher to do so. Make it clear to your students that you have a "large" personal bubble, and would prefer that it be kept intact."
Make it clear that professional conduct requires a lot of space, that is an order expected to be obeyed, and not up for discussion.
"5. Female students often have "crushes" on male teachers. Keep your head on your shoulders and in your pants. There is nothing more public than a secret between a teacher and a student."
I don't speak to female students unless it's business, and keep a very polite distance at all times. Move at a pace that discourages conversation.
They are here for skills training, nothing else.
That's why I'd never consider working with young people and don't associate with them.
"That is the insane mentality that is driving the draconian and inflexible laws (in the US the legal age for having sex with a girl is already higher than that for tossing grenades into houses and then perusing the naked dismembered bodies of the said foreign girls). "
Nice try but not generally so. Some few enlistees join at 17 with parent/guardian consent, but age of sexual consent varies by state.
http://www.ageofconsent.us/
"From all the hollering in Arizona, you'd think that it was completely lawless, when in fact, crime rates are significantly down."
"down" /= "good", especially when it's in one's own neighborhood.
"Yup, kids are getting dumber these days."
In what magic time were they not dumb?
"their security is now rendered 'untrustable'. what a shame."
Unless you encrypt your own traffic, why would you trust any carrier?
Unless you use encryption, don't be so sure you have privacy.
I'll get a Chenbro cube case mod it to hold some of my collection.
Blue LEDs, a carbon-fibre drip pan, and I'll be stylin'!
"You give up certain rights when you travel to a foreign country."
And you give them ALL up (well, unless you are military) when you travel in the Middle East. That isn't a troll or a joke.
Don't like how they roll? Do not go there, you don't need to be there, end of story.
The sentence sends a message. Punishment should punish. Now he can serve as an example to others, while having his career so damaged he'll likely be mopping floors for the rest of his days.
He can enjoy his narcissism in a cell.
He volunteered to ruin his own life by being stupid, his conduct isn't defensible, and he got spanked. There aren't two sides to the story. He was a fool, a control freak, and merits crushing so that is what happened.
End-users won't fix the problem. RIM would simply lose money.
The Middle East not only doesn't play by our customs, those customs are utterly alien.
They want the technology, but they remain tribalist, Jihadist, Wahabist in the case of KSA, and none of this is changing for the better.
"I wish they'd just cut the bull and focus on unstable and testing."
Why should they sacrifice QUALITY in order to do that, when you can just run Unstable, Testing, or another distro?